Lundby deployment was based to the setting up of an Ipad, which will be connected to a large public display. This is working well, especially for the Lundby staff, because they can improve the deployment of makerspaces and their creative activities.

Keep on working Daisy!

]]>Research newsEliteforskninggustavo.insaurralde@enssib.frWed, 04 Sep 2019 16:06:00 +0200Working in Summer 3: Working in summer 4: Have you seen my video? Placed presentation in the 2019 IFLA Congress and General Assembly http://placedproject.eu/news/nyhed/artikel/working-in-summer-4-working-in-summer-4-have-you-seen-my-video-placed-presentation-in-the-2019-if/
Raphaëlle Bats, from the #LyonTeam, gave a lecture about Placed in the 2019 IFLA Congress and...Raphaëlle Bats, from the #LyonTeam, gave a lecture about Placed in the 2019 IFLA Congress and General Assembly. The title of the lecture was: “Have you seen my video? Producing, keeping and sharing the audiovisual productions of the library”, where Raphaëlle explained how Placed and especially Explore work for libraries. Following the question “how to renew the way libraries are sharing the videos of the events? “, Raphaëlle strongly stress the fact that giving access is not sharing and communication is not enough in time of infobesity. At the end of her intervention, many colleagues decided to visit the IFLA booth in the congress.

Congrats Raphaëlle !

]]>Research newsEliteforskninggustavo.insaurralde@enssib.frWed, 28 Aug 2019 15:52:00 +0200Working in Summer 2: PLACED at 2019 IFLA Congress and General Assembly http://placedproject.eu/news/nyhed/artikel/working-in-summer-4-placed-at-2019-ifla-congress-and-general-assembly/
Part of the Lyon team has installed a booth in the 2019 IFLA Congress and General Assembly. This...Part of the Lyon team has installed a booth in the 2019 IFLA Congress and General Assembly. This booth was shared between our research project and the Francophone International Association of Librarians and Documentalist. This double-sensed booth, where research and public advocacy meet, had two objectives: on one hand, to present our project to the professional community, and potential users of the prototypes; on the other hand, to collect information through surveys. As a result of our participation, librarians from more than 20 countries were part of our research. They showed great interest for our project.

Bravo for the Enssib Team!

]]>Research newsEliteforskninggustavo.insaurralde@enssib.frSun, 25 Aug 2019 15:53:00 +0200Working in summer: PLACED in SommerKREA http://placedproject.eu/news/nyhed/artikel/working-in-summer-placed-in-sommerkrea/
One of the researchers of the group, Daisy Yoo has tested a new-jointed version of our two...One of the researchers of the group, Daisy Yoo has tested a new-jointed version of our two prototypes, Explore and Participate, in the SommerKREA series at Dokk1.“This deployment has been successful; people have gradually integrated it to the workshops” stated Daisy, after showing a list of quantitative and qualitative data related to the subject.

SommerKREA includes a wide range of participatory workshops for kids. They are totally appealed to the inclusion of new supports in their activities. “Kids loved to see their videos on Explore. The cool thing about it was that you can play multiple videos simultaneously. Kids can make new sound by playing multiple videos together, matching different instruments”

In order to reinforce the usage of the screens, Daisy and her team applied some posters with the sign “Try me” on them and some postcard-size handouts to people to promote PLACED.

After this team work, Aurélien is thought to be present at with the ERA-NET Cofund Smart Urban Futures Call (ENSUF) Midterm Event along with Placed Project Manager Peter Dalsgaard in Oslo, Norway. This event is organised by Urban Europe, providing an opportunity for the projects to present first results, participate in thematic and coaching sessions, to discuss common challenges, share ideas, inspire and be inspired.

We are happy to see the progress of our group!

]]>Research newsEliteforskninggustavo.insaurralde@enssib.frThu, 16 May 2019 17:01:00 +0200#LyonMeeting2019: Day 2http://placedproject.eu/news/nyhed/artikel/lyonmeeting2019-day-2/
Aarhus University, Chalmers Institute of Technology, Enssib and the University Lyon 1 researchers...If the first day was the day of presentations, balances and new perspectives, the second day of the #LyonMeeting took another stage: the BML, or as its French name states: Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon. Libraries tend to be a central axis of community life in any city, but the BML is a central space where people and knowledge meets. By the same logic, Placed is an interface encouraging the encounter of collections, events and participation.

After some orange juice, caffeine and the traditional patisserie française, the journey started with the business plan managed by Anya Ernest. Placed participants were split in two groups, all of them composed by researchers and librarians from different countries. They have to think about how the implementation of these platforms could create/encourage pains, gains and costumers jobs (referring costumer tasks) to potential users. This activity was aimed to transform Placed’s narrative into a easily-sold storytelling and to make a huge leap into the market.

With more caffeine in the tables, it was the turn of the Dissemination Plan, in charge of Raphaelle Bats, Enssib research and part of the #LyonTeam. As a way to ensure that the results of the project are disseminated to a wide audience and its work has maximum impact, the plan has two objectives and two targets. In regards to objectives, the Dissemination Plan tries to engage library staff and visitors with the project to have a basis of future co-design participants as well as it develops a communication strategy to spread knowledge on it. The targets of this strategy are the academic community and the librarian one. The dissemination plan directed to the librarian community uses different stances, such as the online publication of this blog and the presentation of its potential and results in academic and professional congresses.

When the orange letters of the Communication Plan appeared on the screen, some hysterical shouts started to rise. By using a strong visual identity and following a “serious but fun” philosophy, the communication strategy presentation part strongly emphasized the federate and promote motto of Placed. It also highlighted the “whole and the parts” strategy of the website, trying to connect the globality of the project to an individually crafted storytelling process from each event. After that, the Dissemination Plan team discussed some statistics about the new community management of the institutional twitter account.

Last but not least in regards to the dissemination plan, the strategy directed to professionals intends to promote each demonstrator (Explore and Participate) in information science and bibliothecology events. By showing a chronogram of future events and proposing some questions, Raphaelle encouraged the dialogue between the dissemination opportunities and the academics needs.

In spite of the importance and the personal impacts of the advancements of the dissemination plans, the #LyonMeeting was far from finishing. Groups split in two again, being the occasion for some to discuss the future of the project, as long as others to make a guided tour to the BML. Before of it, half an hour was spent in the discussion about the upcoming national UE calls.

Swedish and Danish librarians were thrilled to visit the BML in order to know their secrets. A trainee made a brief introduction of the library history, its sections and its importance at the local and national level. Then, librarians had the chance of meeting the officials in charge of the Disability section, the Artothèque and Children’s one, regarding possible stances of cooperation and personal interests of our prominent visitors.

The division ended up with a lunch under the Lyonnais sun and the expected family photo. Then, the planes tickets and the preparation of passports of our Scandinavian partners were ready. After long speeches and strong farewells, some promises of more work and a strong commitment to future collaborations still lingered on the air of Lyon.

]]>Research newsEliteforskninggustavo.insaurralde@enssib.frThu, 16 May 2019 15:39:00 +0200#LyonMeeting2019: Day 1http://placedproject.eu/news/nyhed/artikel/lyonmeeting2019-day-1/
Aarhus University, Chalmers Institute of Technology, Enssib and the University Lyon 1 researchers...After months of preparation, Swedish and Danish partners arrived to the Enssib. Hosts Aurélien and Raphaëlle, stood on the door to say hello and take them into the warm and coffee-smelling classroom 104. Coffee was an essential part of the meeting because, without it, productivity rates would have been lower than usual. French soft power was present too, with a table full of classic viennoiseries: pain au chocolats, pain aux raisins, chaussons aux pommes and the biggest star of all, croissants.

Giving hands and saying hello in a sunny day in Lyon is the ripping start of the #LyonMeeting. Aurélian cleared his throat as if he was about to start another class in the University Lyon 1. After this personal sound, he introduced today’s agenda, highlighting the duration of each activity.

The State of the Project was the first event of the day. Peter Daalsgaard (Human-Interaction Machine Professor at Aarhus University), as Placed project manager, explained the global progress of the project Despite differences of librarian practises and patrons consumer habits, Peter encouraged designers from the project to create tools to reduce the barrier of entry for new usagers.

The youngest members of #PlacedProject started the second activity, explaining the ongoing working process of #Participate and #Explore. Daisy Yoo, Designer from the #AarhusTeam, presented the possibilities of #Participate. #Participatewill support the discovery of ongoing and upcoming activities to increase involvement. It will support active visitor participation in activities such as an author’s book reading event. A digital representation of the activity will be easily accessible from visitors’ personal devices through the library collection when in proximity of the place of the activity. As the book reading unfolds, visitors in the library can comment, post questions or share media from their personal devices or public kiosks in the library, and navigate in the shared activity stream. When an activity ends, it will be stored in the library collection. Her presentation was about the presentation demos and the design process included in it.

On the other part, Alix Ducros, the youngest member of the #LyonTeam and PHD student from the University Lyon 1, has carried the presentation of Explore. According to Alix, “#Explore is an activity exploration tool integrated with the collections”. In fact, #Explore would support interactive visual exploration of the activities and library collections and dynamically adapt to the device and place in which it is used, leveraging modern Web technologies.

Both of them highlighted the importance of the project and the challenges it may face. Explore and Participate are based on a participatory design approach which includes a large part of stakeholders, including distinct librarian cultures. Both Alix and Daisy focused their presentation on the upcoming steps by regarding the different questions related to the leverage of data collected from #Participate, the patron connection to #Explore and the availability of resources for librarians.

After Daisy and Alix presentation, it was time for a break. A break with our stars: more viennoiseries. This is the time when conversations about #Explore and #Participate were stopped and everyone feels at ease speaking about random subjects.

Ending up with the last trace of pain of chocolat from the break, it was the turn of librarian partners. They had to explain how they deployed this prototype in their libraries. The first to take the microphone was Marie Ravn, from the Danish Library Dokk1. Dook1 conducted the implementation of #Participate in plastic workshops. This recurrent event was organised twice a week and their target audience were the kids and adults. On the other side, BML Librarians and #LyonTeam Guillaume Morand and Michel Wong presented the workshops and public lectures on journalism, gender, politics, sciences organised where they applied #Explore. Marie, Guillaume and Michel stressed common points in their presentations: the limits of the prototypes appropriation, their technical limitations, and their potential usefulness and usability. Their presentation also included the possibilities these platforms open to librarians and their daily work.

Before lunch, a participatory activity was deployed. In order to integrate both platforms, #Explore and #Participate, Aurélien propose a participatory workshop. The game started splitting the participant into three groups. They had to choose a real case and revisit the organisation of this event using #Explore and #Participate. Then they must identify connections between both platforms to understand information flow from different sources: libraries database or collections. When they pick an event where Participate or Explore would use, they use a post it to mark an ideal scenario. At the end, participants had to make a cartography of uses, the setting-ups, discoveries, among other things. Interesting results came from this activities, all under the eye of Aurelien.

After lunch was served, with vegetarian menus included, the agenda continued with private meetings to end up debating all the group together an established agenda with strategic deadlines. Afternoon was also the time for Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose (Associate Professor at Digital Design and Information Studies of the Aarhus University) to explain upcoming research trends related to the subjects studied in the project.

At 17:00, everyone was tired and ready to come back to their hotels. But instead of doing that, they went sightseeing the city. But the day was not finished. Dinner at Lyon 6ème was arranged beforehand.